@GabryRox
The MSI-Gaming M5 is based on the Z170 chipset which is ... to be frank... its PITA... pain in the ass
If you want to venture into 7,8,9 GPU rigs --- get the Z270 ones which is much more reliable on smOS, nvOC Linux and W10.
However there are special images by smOS and nvOC specifically for this board to work.
But frankly.... the reality is mining will be expensive to get into soon -- even NVIDIA has a mining GPU GTX1060 Mining edition.
Thanks for the advice Cit & Chilidog... the Z270's look like really nice boards, so if and when I can find some decently priced GPU's I may consider going for 1-2 of them. I already am running 4 6x MSI 470 rigs, and would like to get 1-2 more up and running, but as Cit mentioned, the reality is that it would cost a severe premium to build more rigs now due to 1) global shortage of 580/570 and pretty much no 480/470's left in the supply chain and 2) the 2 to 4x cost of NVidia cards compared to Radeon.
I'll be honest, i never really looked hard at the NVidia prices until earlier today, and was astonished to see how much more they cost than AMD cards. Even the lowly 1060's are ~$300, and I think at best they can do what, about the same as a 470 on ZEC (250 S/s)? From there it only seems to get worse... a 1080 can do what, 450-500 S/s on ZEC? Sure, that's 2x what a 470 could do, but about 3x the cost (retail 470, which of course is non-existent now).
The thing i can't figure out is the profitability of these higher end NVidia cards. Just plugging the comparison of a 1080 (non-TI ) vs a 470 in whattomine, the 1080 mining ZEC is only 10% at most more profitable than a 470 mining ETH, but at 2-3x the cost, will take much longer to ROI, correct? And, I'm not adding in the extra you could easily get by going dual ETH + DCR or SIA. In that case, the 470 would actually be more profitable than a 1080. So, kind of wondering what the appeal of going NVidia would be, especially before the shortage of 4xx & 5xx cards. Probably I am missing something...
if you can find any RX cards today it wont be same price.... gpushack offered me 300 bucks for my 1 year old R9 Nano.... no way jose
even though the Nano is a 400+++ sols card, it has TDP of 175w -- so around the specs of 1070 with TDP 150w or less after some tweaking.
For ZEC at least, the current graphic architecture seems to be much more superior to AMD so you are likely to get same hash for less NVIDIA cards vs AMD
I have 4 x GA-Aorus-1080ti 2600-2700sols but eats nearly 200w per card..... but I need at least 6-7 x Nanos to achieve the same results
So I think the math works in favor of Nvidia.... at least for ZEC.
For ETH, memory intensivity will be key and cranking that up will increase power consumption but NVIDIA cards can go even higher MHs per card ~ 1080ti can go up 34-36MHs... so maybe NVIDIA cards will thrive on Equihash algo but perhaps not for Ethhash/Dagger-Hashimoto
